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Your 3 Point Guide to PMP Application

The PMP application can be a bit of a task, but it would all be worth it once you get your certificate.

Here are the important details which you must know and accomplish throughout the whole PMP application process.

1. Prepare a detailed resume. Since this is for PMP certification and not for employment, highlight only those which are related to project management. The authorities will look at these two important factors within your resume: educational attainment and work experience. Provide them with a detailed presentation of what your course was back in college and be sure to include all the majors you had pertaining to project management. This detail is greatly looked upon. As you go on to discuss your work experience within the paper, make sure that you also include the time frames wherein you have served as project manager. The time frame is deemed highly important.

2. As you pass the resume assessment, you should next review a code of professional conduct. This agreement assures you of ethical responsibilities as you go along the process. Upon signing this, you proceed to the next process.

3. This is already the PMP exam itself. This is a multiplechoice type of test which would assess how much you know about project management. This covers all the basics as well as the indepth information only project managers are expected to know of.

After passing this exam, thatOs the only time you will be eligible to receive the PMP certificate. This is of course the last part and the deciding factor for the entire PMP application process.

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PMP Certificate: Out of the Ordinary

Some people may think that certificates really are not a big thing. They may go on thinking that a certificate is just a piece of paper and another addition to your credential but hardly goes noticed. But if you are aspiring for top level positions in big shot companies, you would find these line of thinking entirely false.

A PMP certificate is more than just a certificate.

The PMP certification was actually launched by the Project Management Institute. Nobody can just be authorized to take on the certification exam and even if you have been accepted to take it, that still does not guarantee that you would get your certification. It really takes a rather grueling process to get it but once you do, youOd realize how much itOs all worth it.

Before you get approved, you would have to present your project management credentials first to the proper authorities.

They will look at your educational attainment and how much of it has been focused on project management majors.

Then they would of course also see how actually experienced you are in the field of project management. Usually, they require eight years of first hand experience wherein you have served as a project manager yourself for a minimum of sixty months. Moreover, this means that you did not report to any other supervisor but led your own team into accomplishing different projects.

Once you get approved, the PMP certificate is still not easily within reach. You need to undergo the exam which would assess just how much you really know about project management. It involves the basics as well as the indepth knowledge project man

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agers should be aware of. The exam is what bags the PMP certificate in the end.

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Which PMP Certification Course Should I

Take?

In an ideal world, we would have all the leisure time at our disposal to be able to study any topic we choose for as long as we wish. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world so most of us have responsibilities that will limit the time we have for pursuing studies aside from work. But we know that we need to study in order to advance in our current profession D and that holds true as well for the Project Management Professional occupation.

Equally ideally, we would have the resources (like money for car fuel, or for transportation via mass transit) to be able to attend classroom sessions for the PMP Certification Course we need. But this may not always be feasible (like if we have to work from 8 to 5

in our present job to support ourselves and our families) so for those who cannot go to the classroom location, the classroom can come to you via online distance learning options instead.

Though the classroom sessions could provide more indepth knowledge and skills to us, the online options are good too because they can zero in on the particular topics we are most interested in or need the most. So the advantage with a classroom session is you get more comprehensive training that leaves you a well-rounded Project Management Professional. The advantage with online sessions is that they weed out the surplus knowledge and help you focus on whatever knowledge and skills are most necessary to us.

So it would be difficult to say which one is best, because that would be implying a one-size-fits-all approach is best. And in Project Management, that is never true.

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